Torrents not downloading/uploading

Storybook

Hello recently I have noticed that you made some changes to the servers due to the slowness. However recently I have not been able to download or upload any torrents. any help or anything you are aware of? thank you for your help

Popper

Possibility is that you've modified your "hosts" entries from times were we had DNS issues and it was a quick fix. It was the case on one of my PCs.

To correct that with Windows Vista and 7:
1/ In the Start menu select Accessories > right click on Notepad and select to start as administrator
2/ In the Notepad select File > Open > navigate to C:/ > Windows > System32 > drivers > etc
3/ Select in Notepad to show all files bottom right instead .txt files only, open the hosts file you'll see

If you see entries for gaytorrent.ru and gtru.net, just put an # sign in front of them or delete those line.

Save the file, which will only possible if you opened notepad with right mouse click as administrator as said upstairs.

ATTENTION: Do NOT touch any other entries, wrong manipulation may result in loosing internet navigation.

Feedback if it helped or not is appreciated.

This is rather to exclude that possible cause. Normally the hosts files should have been corrected by active members already at the previous changes some months ago. However I had still at least one case this time on the Helpdesk.

Storybook

I actually have windows xp still :). Anyways I tried the way you said just in XP format.

I opened notepad as admin, went to file > open > changed files of type to all files > > Windows > system32 > drivers > etc > I have 5 files, hosts (which is what I opened) lmhosts, networks, protocol, services. anyway I opened hosts, it tells me this is a file containing mapping of ip addresses, anyways it shows my ip along with local host then it showed another ip possibly my own with www.gaytorrent.ru then tracker.gaytorrent.ru after another different ip. So what I did was is delete www.gaytorrent.ru and the ip address then saved the document. I haven't tried restarting yet, ill give that a try and let you know if it changes or not.

In the past when gaytorrent went down I wasn't able to get on. Then I heard it was back and tried getting on but I kept getting an error saying something along the lines of a DNS problem. so I googled a solution because I didn't know how to contact the website and I ended up changing my DNS to where it worked with gaytorrent. Just recently after the changes made to the server recently I have been having problems and am unable to download/upload. I will let you know if it works or not after rebooting but I am not sure. Thank you for your help.

Speedmaster8

The reboot after the edit is necessary, because the host - file isn't reloaded after you edited it.

You don't have to edit any other file than the "host" file.

Here is the original content of a hosts - file:


# Copyright (c) 1993-2009 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
# For example:
#      102.54.94.97     rhino.acme.com          # source server
#       38.25.63.10     x.acme.com              # x client host

# localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.
#	127.0.0.1       localhost
#	::1             localhost

Storybook

I figured as much with the reboot. Unfortunately that didn't work for me =(..

Speedmaster should I copy and paste what you have into my hosts file?

Speedmaster8

Storybook, the above original file content contains no changes at all, so you might take the content as it is, to ensure, that your hosts - file hasn't got any modifications. Please reboot again, after a modification.

If this solution isn't working for you, we will need further informations about the errors you get. Could you please specify the bittorrent - programm you are using, so that we could tell you, where you find these error messages?

Popper

You said there was tracker.gaytorrent.ru in the hosts file. Can you edit it and put a "#" informant of that line. That will comment that entry out.

it is that entry of the host file which short circuit the domain server requests and avoids that your µTorrent connects to the right IP of our server.

Storybook

Ok I am trying the # in front of the tracker.gaytorrent, will let you know in about 5 minutes. Also Speed I am using utorrent 3.2.3 build 28705 32bit, supposedly its the most recent model. I have downloaded/uploaded with the upgrade previously.

Storybook

@Uwe:

You said there was tracker.gaytorrent.ru in the hosts file. Can you edit it and put a "#" informant of that line. That will comment that entry out.

it is that entry of the host file which short circuit the domain server requests and avoids that your µTorrent connects to the right IP of our server.

Alright I did this and it worked. I am downloading fine, going to try uploading soon. Thank you and Speedmaster so much for all of your help.